Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense

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This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a “how-to” manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more. Analysis and theory. Liberatory community armed self-defense : approaches toward a theory / Scott Crow -- Politicians love gun control : reframing the debate around gun ownership / Neal Shirley/North Carolina Piece Corps -- Gun rights are civil rights / Kristian Williams and Peter Little -- Notes for a critical theory of community self-defense / Chad Kautzer -- Three-way fight : revolutionary anti-fascism and armed self-defense / J. Clark -- The liberation gun : symbolic aspects of the Black Panther Party / Ashanti Alston -- Desire armed : an introduction to armed resistance and revolution / Western Unit Tactical Defense Caucus -- Mischievous elves : defending a broader concept of the self / Leslie James Pickering -- Antagonistic violence : approaches to the armed struggle in urban environments from an anarchist perspective / Gustavo Rodríguez -- Ten ways to advance liberatory community armed self-defense / North Carolina Piece Corps. Histories of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Russian Anarchists and the Civil War, 1917-1922 / Paul Avrich -- Not only a right but a duty : the industrial workers of the world take up the gun in Centralia, Washington, 1919 / Shawn Stevenson -- The people armed : women in the 1930s Spanish Revolution / Anti-Fascist Action UK -- Schwarze Scharen : anarcho-syndicalist militias in Germany, 1929-1933 / Helge Döhring and Gabriel Kuhn -- Other stories from the civil rights movement : a spectrum of community defense / Lamont Carter and Scott Crow -- Negroes with guns : oral history interview with Mabel Williams / David Cecelski -- Self-respect, self-defense, and self-determination : a presentation / Kathleen Cleaver and Mabel Williams with an introduction by Angela Y. Davis -- Repression breeds resistance : the Black Liberation Army and the radical legacy of the Black Panther Party / Akinyele Omowale Umoja -- Drifting from the mainstream : a chronicle of early anti-rape organizing and WASP / Nikki Craft -- Oka Crisis of 1990 : indigenous armed self-defense and organization in Canada / Gord Hill -- We refuse to die : an interview with Dennis Banks / Scott Crow -- Ampo Camp and the American Indian Movement : native resistance in the U.S. Pacific Northwest / Michele Rene Weston -- Mujeres en acción : indigenous women activism within the EZLN / Laura Gallery -- Twelve women in the twelfth year : January 1994 / Subcomandante Marcos -- On violence, disasters, defense, and transformation : setting sights for the future / Scott Crow -- t Gut check time : violence and resistance after Hurricane Katrina / Suncere Shakur -- Breaking the curse of forgotten places in Mexico / Simón Sedillo -- Feminism, guns, and anarchy in the twenty-first century : a southern U.S. story / Mo Karnage -- Defending communities, demanding autonomy : self-defense militias in Venezuela's barrios / George Ciccariello-Maher -- Toward a Redneck Revolt / Dave Strano -- Defense in Dallas in the twenty-first century : an interview with members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club / interview by Scott Crow -- Trial by fire : democracy and self-defense in Rojava / Alexander Reid Ross and Ian LaVallee.